The Headline Game – 1/24/07
Real life or parody? Sometimes, I can’t tell the difference anymore.
Below are two headlines from CNN and two headlines from The Onion. Can you spot which are the real headlines and which are the fakes?
1. Bush rushing to get nation in order before Hu Jintao’s visit
2. Golfing parakeet gains fame on Web
3. Northeast stunned by freak January snowfall
4. Senator on more troops: ‘We better be damn sure’
Note: CNN Headlines taken from front page; headline of actual story may differ. Capitalization on the Onion headlines changed to match CNN.
Answers: Story 1, Story 2, Story 3, Story 4
How did you do?
January 24th, 2007 at 11:39 pm
Well, I only missed one. It’s either sloppy speed-reading or living in DC, but “freak January snowfall” threw me. We had maybe an inch of icy slush and my 8 and 9 o’clock classes were cancelled on Monday. Any snowfall in DC is treated as “freak snowfall”; rain, I believe, in DC is also classified as “freak snowfall” . . .
January 25th, 2007 at 11:44 am
I only missed one as well. Good game!!! Keep it up smarty!!!! I’ve been recommending your blog left and right…..
January 25th, 2007 at 5:45 pm
Lee, thanks for responding. Does my blog have a climate bias?
DeLisa, thanks for the good will and the good word!
I was considering making the Headline Game a weekly feature on Wednesdays, but now the two of you have cinched it. Let’s do it.
This blog gets a serious traffic spike on Thursdays, and I have a feeling it may be riddle-related. Perhaps more weekly features will make the blog a more fun place to visit on a regular basis.